Win95 Upgrade from Win 3.11

When running setup for Win95 upgrade on a Win 3.11 machine I either get an error message or fall out to the dos C: prompt. The machine is a 486DX with 16 MB and about 70MB free hard disk space.I've tried running setup again opting for safe recovery but no luck. The error does not appear to occur at the same place each time.Any help would be appreciated. This is a school machine and I have 11 more to upgrade. ( have only tried this one so I don't know how the others will go).Thank you.

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Hmmm..school machine...have you done a proper virus check?
Is there anyway you can free up some disk space, run 'scandisk' and delete any filexxxx.chk files, empty your 'temp' directory (not from within Windows). Ensure you have a decent amount of free base memory (may need to run 'memmaker' or optimise it manually) Once you have done all this try again to re-install but don't choose the 'safe recovery' option. Good luck!

Ok... why don't you try this:
1) remove everything from the config.sys (just keep device=c:\dos\himem.sys)
2) Same on autoexec.bat... rename it to autoexec.w95 or something
3) run install again
If this doe'sn't work... get the latests version of an antivirus... www.mcaffee.com may work... run antivirus if it's not a virus... then try some memory tester like amidiag or similar

that GFP error is related to memory problems it may be that there's not enough memory or that some simms are defective.

No,you should still have that option.Setup will only stay in DOS until W95 reboots into it's temporary GUI.From that point on,I would think there is no difference from having started it through W3X,other than W3X hasn't been given a chance to screw things up.

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